Apple Podcast Rankings - France - Documentary

Discover the Top 100 Podcasts in France

Explore the latest data-driven rankings of the top 100 podcasts in France. Our comprehensive analysis covers the best Apple Podcasts across various categories, providing insights into the most popular shows, episode lengths, publication frequencies, and leading hosting services. Whether you're a podcast creator or an avid listener, find the top-ranked podcasts that everyone is tuning into right now.

Podcast charts from 10 Aug 2026

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08/10/2026

Average data

Episodes: 107

Frequency: every 22 days

Duration: 00:32:37

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (5 shows)

2. RTL (3 shows)

3. RTBF (3 shows)

4. Nouvelles Écoutes (3 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Audiomeans (21 shows)

2. Acast (20 shows)

3. Ausha (10 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (9 shows)

5. Transistor (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	136	N/A	N/A
2	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
3	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
4	Chroniques Obscures	Neoxi	Society & Culture	68	Spotify for Podcasters	28
5	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	51	Audiomeans	73
6	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
7	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
8	Ce qui se dit la nuit	Julie Vigneron	Society & Culture	13	Ausha	63
9	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	366	Audion	58
10	JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia	Isabelle Farrugia	Society & Culture	18	Acast	68
11	Inspirants	François-Xavier Ménage, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	54
12	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
13	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	100	Acast	73
14	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
15	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
16	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
17	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	15	Acast	90
18	Lignes de crêtes	Making Waves	Society & Culture	3	Transistor	59
19	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
20	Serial Mytho : un mythomane raconté par ses ex. Une histoire vraie, au micro de Mathieu Palain	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	73
21	Armand Vaquerin, la dernière tournée	Atelier Frissonne	Society & Culture	2	Ausha	48
22	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
23	Gilles Galloux	Gilles Galloux	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
24	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
25	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
26	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
27	Espace Documentaire	Espace Documentaire	Society & Culture	948	Spreaker	64
28	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
29	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
30	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
31	Thread Horreur By Delkor	Delkor	Society & Culture	286	Spotify for Podcasters	32
32	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
33	Le Tour de France avec Sully	We Tell Stories	Society & Culture	23	Unknown	48
34	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	23	Acast	84
35	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
36	Écouter le Japon	Podcast-Ecouter-le Japon	Society & Culture	7	Ausha	73
37	Le meilleur des Docus	La référence des grands documentaires	Society & Culture	63	Acast	53
38	Oh my planète	ADEME	Society & Culture	41	Audiomeans	79
39	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	516	Audiomeans	84
40	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
41	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	117	Simplecast	53
42	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
43	ET PAN !	ET PAN !	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	64
44	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	22	Acast	58
45	À la recherche du fromage disparu Feed not publicly shared by the creator	INA	Documentary	7	N/A	N/A
46	PRESS ROOM	Esther Press Room	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	94
47	VYRAJE	Sarah Bardin	Society & Culture	28	Ausha	79
48	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	257	WideOrbit	48
49	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
50	Ligne Rouge	BFMTV	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	53
51	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
52	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	12	PRX	69
53	Mécréantes	Léane Alestra	Society & Culture	14	Buzzsprout	52
54	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
55	LE DIVAN	TVONEAR	Society & Culture	74	Audiomeans	69
56	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
57	La Jeune Rue	Nouvelles Ecoutes	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	59
58	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
59	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
60	Carnet de Voyage	Carnet de Voyage	Society & Culture	63	Spotify for Podcasters	28
61	Embarquement immédiat - Histoire de crash	Karine de Falchi	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	58
63	Problèmes de riches	majelan	Society & Culture	18	Audiomeans	53
64	Histoires d'en haut	Le Dauphiné Libéré	Society & Culture	61	Acast	59
65	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
66	Un bled à soi	Institut du monde arabe	Society & Culture	8	Transistor	59
67	Rádio Novelo Apresenta	Rádio Novelo	Society & Culture	199	Megaphone	53
68	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
69	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
70	AU LONG	Society	Society & Culture	47	Acast	69
71	Ils dévoraient la ville en imagination (Maroc, 1965 - 1973)	INA	Society & Culture	7	Octopus	59
72	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
73	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
74	En Immersion	Antoine Mazère, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	3	Audiomeans	43
75	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
76	DES RACINES & DES AILES	TVONEAR	Society & Culture	35	Audiomeans	63
77	Shame on you	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	74
78	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
79	À Travers La Serrure \| Podcast Paranormal	À Travers La Serrure	Society & Culture	6	Spotify for Podcasters	32
80	À Brûler Sans Ouvrir	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	83
81	Kintsugi, l'histoire de ma reconstruction	Slate.fr Podcasts	Society & Culture	10	Audion	83
82	Mythomane - Contes et légendes de la Grèce antique	Thomas Hellman	Society & Culture	16	RSS.com	42
83	La Politique des putes	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	73
84	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
85	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
86	Gueules Cassées	Audio Pictura	Society & Culture	6	Podcastics	84
87	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	62	Spreaker	43
88	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
89	FRICTIONS, raconter le monde par l'intime	Frictions	Society & Culture	143	Ausha	63
90	Intime & Politique	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	53	Audiomeans	69
91	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
92	Journal Intime	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	42	Acast	89
93	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	188	Simplecast	58
94	Cómo contar un país	EL PAÍS	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	64
95	La recherche à l'écoute	IRD	Society & Culture	18	Podcastics	84
96	Unexpected People	BNP Paribas	Society & Culture	12	Ausha	43
97	LAISSE BETON	Amélie DAGUES	Society & Culture	89	Audiomeans	79
98	Parc naturel régional du Massif des Bauges	Parc naturel régional du Massif des Bauges	Society & Culture	18	Ausha	48
99	Meurtres et Mystères	Hosnelle	Society & Culture	121	Spotify for Podcasters	63
100	Une épopée : Victor Hugo	Valentin Lavoillotte	Society & Culture	8	Spotify for Podcasters	59

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